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Export RIS. EndNote web. Export Excel. View It. Diglossia Linguistics -- Switzerland. Intercultural communication. Introduction -- 2. Data collection and participants -- 3. Socio-historical and sociolinguistic background -- 4. Identity -- 5.
Modes of positioning -- 6. Language learning in a diglossic area -- 7. Doing Swiss and performing hybridity: positioning of self and other and negotiating meaning -- 8. Conclusion -- 9. Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Transcription conventions -- 1.
The theoretical framework adopted draws on the sociocultural linguistic approach to identity and the social psychological theory of positioning. The data stem from ethnographic observation and recordings carried out over a three-year period with intercultural couples, namely Anglophones married to native German-speaking Swiss, who reside in central Switzerland, where a diglossic situation prevails.
The positionings individuals take up or refute indicate that the performance of "doing Swiss" is not only discursively co-constructed, but a site where the negotiation of meaning emerges within the context of social interaction.
